Frozen on the login screen

unplugged23 · 2010-05-07 03:37:24

Hello there!

I have made excellent progress installing arch linux, and have finally gotten myself to the log in screen. I have installed arch with the slim login manager, and the awesome window manager. Upon reaching the login screen everything seems to freeze up. I cannot enter my username, and the the '|' indicating where you are going to type does not blink. I do not think that it is recognizing my keyboard, the keyboard is responsive while booting (num lock can toggle on and off) but un responsive after reaching the log in screen (num lock is off and cannot be toggled on). I'm not sure what could be causing this, but appriciate any ideas!!

wonder · 2010-05-07 03:41:38

is not freezed. xorg isn't detecting any input devices because you forgot to start hal

unplugged23 · 2010-05-07 21:25:44

I thought i set up hal to boot before X, but I must have made a mistake. Is there a way to stop X from booting and get into the command line to change this? Or am I going to have to do another install?

Last edited by unplugged23 (2010-05-07 21:32:44)

wonder · 2010-05-07 21:28:30

unplugged23 wrote:

I thought i set up ga==hal to boot before X, but I must have made a mistake. Is there a way to stop X from booting and get into the command line to change this? Or am I going to have to do another install?

depend on how do you start X, inittab way just append in grub init 3 or if you used daemon way, append init 1.

to edit the grub menu, hit "e", then select kernel line and hit "e" again. after you append the proper text at the end, hit enter and then "b"

unplugged23 · 2010-05-07 21:45:06

I've tried adding init 1 and init 3 to the end of the kernel. Both result in an error message that says root was mounted but y does not exist. I must be doing something wrong

unplugged23 · 2010-05-08 00:44:42

is 'init 3' all I need to add to the end of the kernel line, or am I doing something wrong?

jasonwryan · 2010-05-08 00:56:02

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dis … nager#GRUB

Arch Wiki wrote:

The run-level was appended to the end so the kernel knows what run-level to start with.

unplugged23 · 2010-05-08 01:13:50

I added '1' to the end of the kernel line and booted, I got to the log in screen, but was still unable to use the keyboard or mouse. I tried again adding '3' at the end of the line, and when the machine booted it loaded the arch command line. I signed in from here, and the desktop loaded, but I was unable to use the keyboard or mouse. Any thoughts?

EDIT: sorry, made the previous post before thinking to hard. I used the command to edit rc.conf, and got dbus and hal in the start up array. I'm installing firefox on the arch desktop now.

Thanks for everyone who helped!!

Last edited by unplugged23 (2010-05-08 01:31:54)

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#1 2010-05-07 03:37:24

Frozen on the login screen

#2 2010-05-07 03:41:38

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#3 2010-05-07 21:25:44

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